Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
It has all been most interesting.
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.