“Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.”

“FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?”

“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.”

“Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.”

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

“Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.”