I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.

The sun is but a morning star.

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