A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.