In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

Chess is one long regret.

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.