“Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.”

“Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.”

“All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.”

“Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.”

“Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.”

“Examine each individual, and consider the whole world, and you will find that there is no man's life that is not aiming at tomorrow.”

“What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.”

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

““Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream,””

“Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.”

“It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.”

“A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.”

“All the world knows that France sneezes when England takes a pinch of snuff.”

“When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.”

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

“In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.”

“"Let your occupations be few," says the sage, "if you would lead a tranquil life."”

“I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation -- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.”

“Trifles make the sum of life.”

“Which is it: is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?”

“Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way.”

“When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.”

“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments. ”

“He put on a little knapsack and he walked through Indiana and Kentucky and North Carolina and Georgia clear to Florida. He walked among farmers and mountain people, among swamp people and fishermen. And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things he tried to explain.”

“The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.”

“A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world”