The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.

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

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.