The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.