“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.”

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

The game is afoot.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.

Anything is better than stagnation.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

One must wait till it comes.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again.

If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion.

Nobody wants to really play bad cricket.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there’s also a lot of good.