The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.