It is not down in any map; true places never are.
From Herman Melville
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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