God help us for we knew the worst too young.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.