Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

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.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

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

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.