If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.