If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.