Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

We die, because we live.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds of the earth; one and all, brothers in essence-oh, be we then brothers indeed! All things form but one whole.

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

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.