Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.

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

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

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.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

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.