Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.

When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.