No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

In the one branch he most needed

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.