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

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

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.