A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.