I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?