Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.