No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.