Education is an admirable thing.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.