The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction..

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours..

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong..

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should….

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs..

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so..

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon..

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion..

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven..

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise..

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity..

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. Bu….

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one..

A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better….

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar..

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards….

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the convers….

A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts..

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to l….

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do..