The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?