 Always be a little kinder than necessary. |
| I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. |
| We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. |
| His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. |
| I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. |
| Life is a long lesson in humility. |
| A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. |
| The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. |
| Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? |
| Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. |
| There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. |
| Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. |
| That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. |
| Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. |
| Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds. |
| We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. |
| You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. |
| Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. |
| For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. |
| A woman can be anything the man who loves here would have her be. |
