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

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.