"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."

"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."

"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."

"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."

"I am excessively fond of music, but without the smallest skill or right of judging of anybody's performance."

"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."

"O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall."

"So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now."

"Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat."

"No one knows what he can do till he tries."

"Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies."