Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.