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 little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

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

Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.

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.