But of works of art little can be said.
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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.