He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.