The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.