A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.