My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.