Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!