The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
Poetry makes life what light and music do the stage.
Please, sir, I want some more.
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
