Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Concentration is the secret of srength.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.