Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.