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

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

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

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

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.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.