Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.