Habit is second nature.

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.