A drop of ink may make a million think.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!