The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.