The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

It is good to love the unknown.

Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.