The essence of love is kindness.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.