We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.