We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.