Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.