Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.
We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.