A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

He could find no cure for his grief; but he did know that continued occupation would relieve him, and therefore he occupied himself continually.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Needless to deny that the normal London plumber is a dishonest man. We do not even allow ourselves to think so. That question, as to the dishonesty of mankind …

When issues of events like these my father is waiting for, are hanging in the scales of fate, the mind has the advantage of changing the principle of expectati…

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.