A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.