If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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.

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

The devil was the first democrat