Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.