A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.