There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.