“He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”

“I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”

“Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.”

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”

“The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another–no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.”

“If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.”