“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.