The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July..

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek..

Every saint has a bee in his halo..

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them..

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageo….

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy..

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do….

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet..

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room..

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable..

There are two words for everything..

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams..

The art of life is to show your hand..

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle..

There is no diplomacy like candor..

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance..

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular..

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages..

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor..

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks t….