"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving"
"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 go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage"
"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly"
"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer"
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life"
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding"
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer"
"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil"
"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate"
"A friend is a gift you give yourself"
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"
"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"
"Everyone lives by selling something"
"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences"
"Every man has a sane spot somewhere"
"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind"
"Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week"
"Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal"
"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"
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police"
"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes"
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face"
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser"
"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves"
"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being"
"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong"
"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him"
"I've a grand memory for forgetting"
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"
"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion"
"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"
"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 am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered"
