Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.