Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

Crying all the way to success is better than smiling all the way to failure.

I gave too much to people.... So much selfish people in life.

I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me

Reverence is fatal to literature.

I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.