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

I wish these flies would piss off.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.