It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

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

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.