A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.