If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
As if the world and they were hand and glove.
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.
When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.