Let joy be unconfined.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.