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.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.