Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

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

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.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.