Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.