Customs represent the experience of mankind.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.