What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.