If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

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.

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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.