You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper, it's not War and Peace anymore; it's comic-book stuff. Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.