Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.