Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one’s dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice...

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of...

He was a student – such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to students.He was a German – such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to Germans.He was young, handsome, studious, enthusiastic, metaphysical,...

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

a silent night. – the most eloquent poem i have ever read.

In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I was a boy on the farm a relative of ours had testified in...

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts...