Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.