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

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

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

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.