Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.