We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.