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

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

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

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.

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

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?