Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.