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.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season.

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.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"