I would rather be ashes than dust.

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.