The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.

They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.