When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

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

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

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

What is there that money will not do?

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

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 was written.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.