Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.