We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Good talk is like an impromptu piece of acting where each should represent himself to greatest advantage.

The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

The world has no room for cowards.

It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

The young demand joy like a right -- the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain. Robert Louis Stevenson.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Natural talk like plowing, should turn up a large surface of life, rather than dig mines.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.