It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.