Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

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.

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.

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

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over