A person can't help their birth.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.