Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.