There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

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.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

It's dogged as does it.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

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.