Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

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