A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

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.

Life is so unlike theory.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

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

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Short accounts make long friends.