It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.