Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.