"Every day in a life fills the..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!”

“Friends are seldom found; they are made.”

“But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.”

“My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.”

“I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.”

“I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.”

“The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.”

“Because of something told under the famished hornOf the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.”

“The remembrance of past misery is sweet.”