Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.