Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man