There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.