There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.