We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

There is a crack in everything God has made