He that has done nothing has known nothing.
With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.