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.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

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.

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

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

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.