In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Honor lies in the mane of a horse.

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

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.