You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.