If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.