All romances end at marriage.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

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

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.