Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

The world exists for the education of each man.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.