"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."

"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink."

"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age."

"Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions."

"Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium."