Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.