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

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

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

We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.

I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.

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.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.