He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.