Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.