In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.