The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.