Men Who Pass Most Comfortably Through This

The Last Degree Of Honesty Has Always Been, And Is Still Considered Incompatible With Statesmanship. To Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness Has Been Naturally, As It Were, Supposed A Disqualification For Affairs.

Men Who Pass Most Comfortably Through This World Are Those Who Possess Good Digestions And Hard Hearts.

When Once Experience Taught Me That I Could Work When I Chose, And Within A Quarter Of An Hour Of My Determining To Do So, I Was Relieved, In A Great Measure, From Those Embarrassments And Depressions Which I See Afflicting Many An Author Who Waits For A Mood Instead Of Summoning It, And Is The Sport, Instead Of The Master, Of His Own Impressions And Ideas.

Authorship Has Never Been With Me A Matter Of Choice. I Have Not Done It For Amusement, Or For Money, Or For Fame, Or For Any Reason But Because I Could Not Help It.

The Sick-room Becomes The Scene Of Intense Convictions; And Among These, None, It Seems To Me, Is More Distinct And Powerful Than That Of The Permanent Nature Of Good, And The Transient Nature Of Evil.