I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

Live the life you've dreamed.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.