Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

The triumph of hope over experience.

You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.