A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

A man should give us a sense of mass.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.