We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Idling has always been my strong point.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.