As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.