"I've a grand memory for forgetting."

"There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change."

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

"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."

"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."

"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral."

"No man is useless while he has a friend."

"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."

"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."

"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."

"The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing."

"To forget oneself is to be happy."

"Every one lives by selling something."

"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."

"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."

"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."

"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."

"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

"Every man has a sane spot somewhere."

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."

"You can kill the body but not the spirit."

"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."

"Wine is bottled poetry."

"So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."

"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."

"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life."

"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity."

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."

"To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life."

"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."

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

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."

"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."