My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.