One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

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

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

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