There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.