You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.