Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.