Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.

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.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

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

The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle.