Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

It's dogged as does it.

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

Beware of creating tedium!

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

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

The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.