“It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,—being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."”

“That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.”

“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”

“It is better to be concerned with being than with nothingness. Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”

“Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.”

“I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.”

“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”

“The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.”

“Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can’t have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don’t rate it.”