If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.

Beware of creating tedium!