Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.