It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

The improved means to the unimproved end.