Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.