Tell me what you know. Finish each day and be done with it.
Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.