This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.