Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.