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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.