It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.