It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.