The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

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.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.