It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.