“If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.”
“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”
“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
“It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country”
“Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.”