A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of….

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds..

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself..

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art..

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest….

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony..

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable..

I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that ….

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays..

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with th….

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of me….

I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere….

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise..

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than ….

We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our foll….

The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where i….

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules..

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it..

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me ….

No other American city is so intensely American as New York..

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist..