The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.