Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring