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

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.