Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.