Everyone lives by selling something.

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

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

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.