Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing."

"If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and while their leaders may have all the inexperience of old age, their young men are far too wise to be ever sensible."

"A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain."

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

I should be like a lion in a cave of savage Daniels.