Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
