As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing