Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.