Once A Female, Always A Female. Nature

I Think Oysters Are More Beautiful Than Any Religion,' He Resumed Presently. 'they Not Only Forgive Our Unkindness To Them; They Justify It, They Incite Us To Go On Being Perfectly Horrid To Them. Once They Arrive At The Supper-table They Seem To Enter Thoroughly Into The Spirit Of The Thing. There's Nothing In Christianity Or Buddhism That Quite Matches The Sympathetic Unselfishness Of An Oyster.

There Are Certain Fixed Rules That One Observes For One's Own Comfort. For Instance, Never Be Flippantly Rude To Any Inoffensive Grey-bearded Stranger That You May Meet In Pine Forests Or Hotel Smoking-rooms On The Continent. It Always Turns Out To Be The King Of Sweden.

I Am Not Collecting Copies Of The Cheaper Editions Of Omar Khayyám. I Gave The Last Four That I Received To The Lift-boy, And I Like To Think Of Him Reading Them, With Fitzgerald's Notes, To His Aged Mother. Lift-boys Always Have Aged Mothers; Shows Such Nice Feeling On Their Part, I Think.

I Believe I Once Considerably Scandalized Her By Declaring That Clear Soup Was A More Important Factor In Life Than A Clear Conscience.

Great Socialist Statesmen Aren't Made, They're Still-born.