If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.