Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.