Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.