It so happened that of six persons arrested on suspicion, four of them accused a particular one as the murderer, and volunteered the information that he had also defæcated in the victim’s bed.

As to the advice you give, to resume my estate, I am determined not to litigate with my father, let what will be the consequence to myself.

All this time I worked very hard … and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.

The powerful and the fortunate are very fond of the maxim, where there's a will there's a way; and they rarely use it without expressing in very clear terms a cold, insolent, and uncharitable judgment upon exertions they are themselves not called upon to make, while they modestly declare that such exertions, if by them made, would be triumphant. They say, in sort, to the weak and unprosperous—You might succeed if you would, for effort is success, and we should find a certain and easy conquest where you have met but baffled hopes and continual defeat!