I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

An empire is an immense egotism.