In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.