my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed..

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

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virgini….

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly..

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke..

In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red….

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings..

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another….

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move..

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances..

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else..

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day..

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens..

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate..

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery..

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory..

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories..

The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a s….

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires..

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, l….

The obscurest epoch is to-day..