The average Englishman does not see why a stranger should accost him with jocosity - many Englishmen do not see why a stranger should accost them at all

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

He was not a stranger to her nor was she a stranger to him and I think things like that caused the jury to wonder whether or not he would have been the person that killed her,

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.