Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.