It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.