Isolation breeds conceit.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.