The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Dare, will, keep silence.