Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.