Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
No day is without its innocent hope.
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.
No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.