Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.