A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.