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.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

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.