It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.