I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.