No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.