This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?