We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

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.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.