He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.