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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

And what should they know of England who only England know?

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Delight in the little things.

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.