Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

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

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.