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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.