Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

A vow is a snare for sin

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.