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.

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

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.