How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.