A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give..

When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do s….

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do..

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes..

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart..

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money..

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper..

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant..

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it..

When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any sub….

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do..

A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influen….

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg..

The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the p….

With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to ge….

As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a ….

It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who ….

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so..

Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with….

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week..

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to….