Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garments are typical of our conformity to the ways of the world, i.e., of the devil, and to some extent react on us and poison us, like that shirt which Hercules put on.