The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.