Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.