When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!