"Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt."

"Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard."

"Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it"

"When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, / He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; / An' what he thought 'e might require, / 'E went an' took - the same as me!"

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors"

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble"

"You just don't know how to use the English language."

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

"For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done."