Sooner barbarity than boredom.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.