 It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. |
| An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. |
| The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. |
| It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. |
| There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. |
| When it comes to money nobody should give up anything. |
| 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, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. |
| There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. |
| There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. |
| The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. |
| I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. |
| I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. |
| Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. |
| Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. |
| 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. |
| When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. |
| What is there that money will not do? |
| When men think much, they can rarely decide. |
| No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. |
| 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 all improvement. |
