When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.