The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.