The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I was not born to be forced.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.