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

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

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

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

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

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

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.