Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.