“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
