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

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

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.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

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.