We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

Every child begins the world again.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.