A prudent consideration for Number One.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

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

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.