Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy – for I am myself three-parts a fool...

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part – a sort of drug – this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them...

You can do anything in London, as long as you don’t do it on the street.

I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and managed to conceal the little dog upon my person. All went well until my bosom barked.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother’s bosom.

Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. “Everything was going splendidly,” she later remarked, “until my bosom barked.”

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.