How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

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.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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