Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

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

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

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.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.