When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

Life is magical when you are drunk with love.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.