Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.