He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.