Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
I only ask for information.
A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.
I was a blacksmith’s boy but yesterday; I am – what shall I say I am today?
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.