Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.