Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

I love reform better than its modes.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.