The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.