Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

The moment you're born you're done for.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.