Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.