Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.