Never utter the truism but live it among men.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.