Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.