To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?