No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
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