Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

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

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.