It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.