Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.