Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.