I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.