“Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.”

“How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?”

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

“But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.”