Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.