Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.