That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

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

Wisdom is found only in truth.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Blood is a very special juice.