God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.