What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

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

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.