Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

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

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.