An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.