Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.