I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.