I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.