Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe in my own stories.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without.

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but the imagination and the heart.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

There is never jealousy where there is no strong regard.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.