Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.