The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.