I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.