Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.