The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.