Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.