To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

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

Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.

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

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.