Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
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.