Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.