Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.