Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

The great trues are too important to be new.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.