There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.