Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.