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

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

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

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.

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