All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.