No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

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

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.