To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.