A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.