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Ambition has no rest!

The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,

No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Laws die, Books never.

Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still!

We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.

The Wise out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from the fall; In you the Future as the Past is given-- Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;-- Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven, Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.