Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.