How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen$$$ she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better$$$ or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.

Always a godfather$$$ never a god.

Inventors don't have time for married life.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Once you learn to read$$$ you will be forever free.

He that desires to print a book$$$ should much more desire$$$ to be a book.

I am a little world made cunningly.

The purpose of life -- if it may be said to have purpose -- is not ease. It is to choose$$$ and to act upon the choice. In that task$$$ we are not measured by outcomes. We are measured only by daring and effort and resolve.

Stone and sea are deep in life<br>Two unalterable symbols of the world<br>Permanence at rest<br>And permanence in motion<br>Participants in the power that remains.