To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.