“Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.”

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.

I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.

But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Dead men will tell you, never stand in the way of a determined woman.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

A man’s ego is just as sensitive as a woman’s self-esteem.

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.