I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.