Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.