We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.