I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.