When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.

We are older by faith than by experience.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.