No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.