I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

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.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.