Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.