To be busy is man's only happiness.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.