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.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.