Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

Every savage can dance.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Everything nourishes what is strong already