The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.