Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.