An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.
I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.