When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.