If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.

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?).

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

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

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.