Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.