I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.