Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.