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.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.