Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of heaven on earth.