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.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

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

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

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

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.