The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.