I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.