I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.