The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.