No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.