Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.