The surest poison is time.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
We bust build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.
Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman’s arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
