One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.