Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.