...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.