You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
Life protracted is protracted woe.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations. . . can never effect a reform.
I was young and stupid then. Now I'm not young anymore.
Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?