There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.