It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.