There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.