A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.