Injuries come only from the heart.

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.