The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you..

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners..

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, ….

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write..

It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all t….

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do..

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome..

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described..

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden..

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer..

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away..

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in….

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it….

It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But ….

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything..

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old..

For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I canno….

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world..

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand….

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life ….