Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

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.

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.