Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.