I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.