Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.