Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.