No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

An index is a great leveller.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.