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

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

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.

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

No furniture is so charming as books.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

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