Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.