“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.”
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
