Life is…an art as any other, and the great incidents in it are no more to be considered as mere accidents than the severest members of a fine statue or a noble poem.

When I’m not thank’d at all, I’m thank’d enough:

I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.

Tom Thumb

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

All Nature wears one universal grin.