And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.