Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

A noble book! all men's book!

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

A man perfects himself by working.