But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.