A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

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

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.