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

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.