“To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.”

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

“We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?”

“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”

“There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman.”

“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”