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.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

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.

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

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

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.