I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

I had been there before; I knew all about it.