I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.