We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.