Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

There is a crack in everything God has made