At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.