The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
We can all begin freely � a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human