To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.