He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.