I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make… — Charles Dickens

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

[T]rifles make the sum of life.