All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
Plato was a bore.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
The English are a nation of consummate cant.