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

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

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.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

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

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.