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

It's dogged as does it.

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

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.