The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.