The purpose of man is in action not thought.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

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

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.