For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.