People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

A well begun is half ended.