Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

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.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.