It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

To-day is always different from yesterday.

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.