It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

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

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over