A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.