The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.