It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.