Lessons are not given, they are taken.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

We never remember days, only moments.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.