The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.