It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.