Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.