To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.