The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

America is another name for opportunity.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.