No person is important enough to make me angry.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?