Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

With foxes we must play the fox.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.