Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.