for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene