Never test another man by your own weakness.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.