Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Only to youth will spring be spring.