Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.