A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.