What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.