To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

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

It is doubtful whether the people of southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time in the Five Towns.

She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''