Consequences are unpitying.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.