Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a litt…

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.