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.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

The sharp employ the sharp.