He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.