I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished.
And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.
"get up and do something for your living, can't you?”
if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip.”
"Oh! you women, you make such a fuss over everything,”
"You know we are on a wrong track altogether. We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”
everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
I notice that people always make gigantic arrangements for bathing when they are going anywhere near the water, but that they don't bathe much when they are there.
It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or a the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen to-day.
The weather is a thing that is beyond me altogether. I never can understand it. The barometer is useless: it is as misleading as the newspaper forecast.
Married men have wives, and don't seem to want them; and young single fellows cry out that they can't get them. Poor people who can hardly keep themselves have eight hearty children. Rich old couples, with no one to leave their money to, die childless.
We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes.
Sometimes, our pain is very deep and real, and we stand before her very silent, because there is no language for our pain, only a moan.
Only those who have worn the crown of suffering can look upon that wondrous light; and they, when they return, may not speak of it, or tell the mystery they know.
The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;
The mildest tempered people, when on land, become violent and blood- thirsty when in a boat. I did a little boating once with a young lady. She was naturally of the sweetest and gentlest disposition imaginable, but on the river it was quite awful to hear her.
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