Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Woman was God's second mistake.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!