One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.