It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.