Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.