They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.