The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?).

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

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

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

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.