Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.