History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.