Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.