Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.