Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

I say, break the law.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.