You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.