They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.