There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.