It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?