Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.