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

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.