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."

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.