I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.