We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

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

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.