What then is your duty? What the day demands.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Life's objective is life itself.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.