But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

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

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.

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

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.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.