When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

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

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

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.