Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.