What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.