Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

This above all: be true, be true, be true.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one

Easy reading is damn hard writing.