What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.
There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.
Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.
Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.
Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.
Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
You love me and I love you, your heart hurts. . . well mine does too.