Easy reading requires hard writing.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.