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.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

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

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.