The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.