He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.