Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.