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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.