“A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.”

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.

Humor is wit and love.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football.

If you’re too focused on your current business, it’s hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

We’ve changed our internal motto from Move fast and break things to Move fast with stable infrastructure.

I believe we have a responsibility to do even more. It’s so important that we’re changing.