Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.