In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.