In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.