Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Cats like men are flatterers.
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.