When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

All that matters is what we do for each other.