I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

- Douglas Jerrold

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

- Douglas Jerrold

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

- Douglas Jerrold

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.

- Douglas Jerrold

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

- Douglas Jerrold

There is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

- Douglas Jerrold

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

- Douglas Jerrold

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

- Douglas Jerrold

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

- Douglas Jerrold

In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

- Douglas Jerrold