Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

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

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.