“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”
“With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.”
“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”
“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”
“I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”
“Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.”
“Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
“I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.”
“Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
“Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.”
“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.”
“I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.”
“They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.”
“A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.”
“It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”
“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
“We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.”
“Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!”
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
“Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.”
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”
“Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.”
“Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.”
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
“A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.”
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...”