Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

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

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.