It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appe….

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for….

Nothing like a little judicious levity..

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world..

It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to ….

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was..

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examina….

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

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy..

Saints are sinners who kept on going..

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations..

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtednes….

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual e….

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth..

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its ent….

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life..

Nothing made by brute force lasts..

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is don….

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of ….

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it….

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head..