I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

The law is an ass, an idiot.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.