“I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.

We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.

The substance is almost invisible to us.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

This is one of the magical things about drawing – it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.