The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.