And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.