Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

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

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