The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.