Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.