To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.