I unsettle all things.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.