To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
Those that have the underhand in any fighting, I have observed, are ever anxious to persuade themselves they were betrayed.
Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
There’s never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a’terwards, you may lay to that.[to Tom Morgan]
There’s bad folk everywhere, and what’s far worse, weak ones.
