You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.