Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.