The Library is a wilderness of books.

Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.