No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

I like man, but not men.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.