I Find It Awfully Difficult To Determine

I Find It Awfully Difficult To Determine If The Habit Of Talking About Oneself At Length Runs Contrary To The Basic Rules Of Propriety, Or If Instead The Man Exempt From This Vice Is Rare.

The Commonplace Expression That Life Is Nothing But A Play Is Verified Above All In This: The World Speaks Absolutely Consistently In One Way And Acts Absolutely Consistently In Another.

Man Is Doomed Either Squander His Youth, Which Is The Only Time He Has To Store Provisions For The Coming Years And Provide For His Own Well-being, Or To Spend His Youth Procuring Pleasures In Advance For That Time Of Life When He Will Be Too Old To Enjoy Them.

A Dictionary Can Embrace Only A Small Part Of The Vast Tapestry Of A Language.

Of Men Eternally Dear! Happy Indeed If You Have Breathing-space From Pain: Blessed All The More If Death Should Heal You Of The Pain You Fear!