The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

New York is a sucked orange.

I honor health as the first Muse.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.