Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

The world has no room for cowards.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.