Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from ho…

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he…

It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story 'The Great Orley Farm Case.' But who would ask for the…

When the sun shineth, make hay.

I dreamt for years about making albums and doing world tours-I'd fulfilled all my ambitions in one year.

In this industry, interest in you comes in waves, it's so tidal. And so I don't really want to jump on the first wave that comes along.