A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations….

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive..

Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, ….

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life..

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatib….

Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole,….

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard,….

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them..

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years..

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them..

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead..

I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last s….

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to ….

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful..

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge..

How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, l….

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon..

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?.

Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womanki….

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived..

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict..