Beginnings are always messy.

The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Beginnings are always messy.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.