There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.