If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.