My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.