Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.