Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

My giant goes with me wherever I go.

Men are what their mothers made them.