Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.