 An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. |
| It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. |
| To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. |
| I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. |
| If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! |
| It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. |
| A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. |
| The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. |
| When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. |
| Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. |
| Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed. |
| The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. |
| Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. |
| People hate as they love, unreasonably. |
| It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. |
| Bravery never goes out of fashion. |
| 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. |
| What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. |
| Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. |
| Follow your honest convictions and be strong. |
