Man is a tool-using animal.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.