Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.