A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Books and Reading

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Deeds and Good Deeds

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?

Experience

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Goodness

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

Men

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Opinions

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Unhappiness

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

World

He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.