I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

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

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.