The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.