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

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

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

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

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

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 belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.