The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle..

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know..

Do what thy manhood bids thee do..

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself..

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind..

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in t….

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own..

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?.

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine..

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow..

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?.

Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men..

Home is where the books are.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue..

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own..

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands..

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not subst….

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the f….

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws..

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own..

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral c….