Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.