Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

Women love energy and grand results.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.