faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.