Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Idling has always been my strong point.