It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.