I have lost confidence in myself.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.
A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.
If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
We must go on, because we can't turn back.
He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would...
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.