To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.