The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.