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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.
Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.