Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.