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

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

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

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.

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.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.