There is no sin greater than ignorance.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.