Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.