It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

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.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

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

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.