A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.