There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it..

But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till speci….

What is there that money will not do?.

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever..

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself..

The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more a….

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob..

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places..

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas thing….

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of ad….

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of a….

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience ….

There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but th….

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it..

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able t….

Life is so unlike theory..

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, ra….

In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in….

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He ….

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is n….

Never mingle love and business..