Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.