To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.