Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.