It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. G...
Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese -toasted, mostly
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all other...
I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: t...
In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the under cover of night, cut every honest thr...
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?""Strike my colours!" cried the captain, "No sir, no...
And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something."The score!" he burst out. "Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!"...
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
Old is the tree and the fruit good,Very old and thick the wood.Woodman, is your courage stout?Beware! the root is wrapped aboutYour mother's heart, your father's bones;And like the mandrake comes with...
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almos...
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside,...
That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.