Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.

Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

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

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.