There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.