Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.
So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.