The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

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.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.