Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.