Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Facts are the enemy of truth.