The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.