For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.