Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

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

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.