Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

The living have never shown me how to live.