In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.

I was not born to be forced.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.