Have the courage of your desire.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?