Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.