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

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.