One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!