Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.