And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.