Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.