Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

Manners are the ornament of action.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.