It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.