It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

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.

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

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?