Virtue never has been as respectable as money. Innocents Abroad
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity. Sweet Thursday
It matters not whether you place the sick man on a wooden bed or one of gold; wherever you lay him, he carries his disease along with him. Day's Collacon
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