I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards