Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

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.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.