As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.