When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

Law never made men a whit more just.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.