The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.