How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meanin…

Dost thou think to live till his old doublet will make thee a new truss?

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

You know that feeling when you're leaning back in a chair, and then you lean back too far and start to fall and just at the last second you catch yourself? I f…