Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.