Genius is full of trash.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.