What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.