resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.