The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world's standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.