You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.
Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.