"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."

"You can make anything by writing."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"I was with book, as a woman is with child"

"Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come."