A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.

That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.