As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

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

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.