What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.