What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Life without literary studies is death.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.