Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.