Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.