I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

Humor is wit and love.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.