What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.