The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

You will find my last words in the blue folder.

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn’t amount to conviction.