He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

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

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.