"Poverty makes some humble, but more malignant."

"The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells."

"The Wind and the Beam loved the Rose, And the Rose loved one: For who recks the Wind where it blows? Or loves not the…"

"There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy."

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."

"The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self."

"It is not Wisdom, but Ignorance, which teaches men presumption; Genius may be sometimes arrogant, but nothing is so d…"

"He is certainly a man who bathes and "lives cleanly," (two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Grea…"

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a …"

"Repent!—that is the idlest word in our language."