The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.