In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

She promised to be good. She wasn't.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person be generous of spirit be the person you'd admire.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.

Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!

But life’s never easy when you need it to be.

Don't look back unless it's a good view.

The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.