How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.