In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.