Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.