Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its presence.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person: Always do what you are afraid to do.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.