After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
How not to settle it.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. i.
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. i.
Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. i.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.