What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.